RE: Adsactly Education - Mississippi River The Early People
Anthropologists tell us that the first humans came to the Mississippi valley about 12,000 years ago.
That’s a long time based on US history I’m aware of which reaches only few hundred years ago. Whether anthropologists were correct or not, it’s very interesting to know the beginnings of civilization in US Mississippi’s river and valley. Even 4K years ago people growing food such as corn 🌽 feels like it’s not that long time, since we can clearly relate to these people, afterall we are growing corn today the exact same way in certain countries. If you think about it, just a few hundred years ago people lived very similar way, without cars, or today’s technology.
It is entirely probable that 6 million people died in the Mississippi Valley as a direct result of measles and smallpox.
😱! That’s even hard to imagine.
As always very informative and great article about Mississippi river, valley and culture history @bigtom!
The losses were just staggering in the Mississippi Valley region, probably because the people lived so close together in a highly organized society. It just is dumbfounding to me that there was a city in the Mississippi Basin that was larger than London.
Corn, Squash and Beans were the big three crops for these people. It is still the same in many places.